Research and Innovation

Renaud VUIGNIER, Stagiaire

Helge WESSEL, Programme Officer

Renzo TOMELLINI, Head of Unit

DG Research and Innovation - Directorate Industrial Technologies/Materials

Research and Innovation

Value Added Materials

Unit Materials - ERC - COST

Portfolio Analysis

February 2013

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Policy Research and Innovation

Portfolio analysis

• Why?

• In order to have a current and precise overview of the Unit projects.

• It will then help determine the optimal budget management and resource mix, and to schedule activities to best achieve the Unit operational goals.

Example : fields of applications, Technology Readiness Level (TRL), etc.

• What?

• Unit RTD/Materials (G3) in FP7 208 projects

• ERC - European Research Council in FP7 432 projects on materials out of 3523

• COST – European Cooperation in Science and Technology 538 Actions from 10 different domains

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Data on projects

Sort by categories, budget and

participant types

Analysis

Categories inspired by

study:

"Technology and market perspective for future

Value Added Materials"

• Abstracts • Discussions

• Statistics • Graphs

Methodology

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Energy

Environment

Health

ICT

All categories are analysed more in details, with

subcategories, in the following pages.

Limits

Cross-cutting: difficulties to decide on a

particular category

Field of research versus categories of application

Categories

Transport

Cross-cutting

Others / Networking

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Unit G3

Unit G3 projects in FP7 Total 208 projects

EC contribution by categories Total 776 Mio Euros

20%

18%

17% 16%

13%

12% 4%

Energy

Health

Cross-Cutting

ICT

Transport

Environment

Other/Networking

42 projects

25 projects

33 projects

38 projects

22 projects

22 projects

26

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Unit G3 projects in FP7 Subcategory Energy

48 projects (energy + energy cross-cutting) Total EC contribution 181 Mio Euros

62% 14%

13%

6% 5% Energy Energy saving / efficiency

Energy Energy storage

Energy Energy cross-cutting

Energy Energy generation

Energy Management, transmission and distribution of energy

Energy saving / efficiency

Energy storage

Energy cross-cutting

Energy generation

Management, transmission

and distribution of energy

G3 portfolio Results

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G3 portfolio Results

Unit G3 projects in FP7 Subcategory ICT

43 projects (ICT + ICT cross-cutting) Total EC contribution 158 Mio Euros

42%

21%

31%

5% 1%

Computational methodology

ICT Cross-cutting

Materials for computing equipment

Other ICT manufacturing

Telecommunication

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G3 portfolio Results

Unit G3 projects in FP7 Subcategory Transport

33 projects (transport + transport cross-cutting) Total EC contribution 140 Mio Euros

56% 28%

16% Transport Lightweight materials

Transport Cross-cutting

Transport Electrical vehicles

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G3 portfolio Results

Unit G3 projects in FP7 Subcategory Health

25 projects Total EC contribution 129 Mio Euros

59% 29%

8% 2% 2%

Prostheses and biomaterials forregenerative medicine Orthopaedics

Prostheses and biomaterials forregenerative medicine Cardiovascular

Prostheses and biomaterials forregenerative medicine Cancer Research

Drug manufacturing

Diagnostic technologies and substances

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G3 portfolio Results

Unit G3 projects in FP7 Subcategory Environment

33 projects (environment + environment cross-cutting) Total EC contribution 128 Mio Euros

33%

29%

21%

14%

3%

Environment Waste management

Environment Cross-cutting

Environment CO2 technologies

Environment Water and waste watertreatment

Environment Air pollution Control

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• Organisation type:

• Universities

• Industries

SMEs and non-SMEs

• Public bodies

• Such as ministries

• Research Centres

Examples : Max Planck Gesellschaft, CNRS, JRC

• Others

Associations, Chambers of Commerce and industry

G3 portfolio Participants

Policy Research and Innovation

34%

23% 20%

19%

2% 2%

Universities Research Centres SMEs

Companies Public bodies Others

39%

28%

17%

14%

1% 1%

• Number of participants

total 2420

1429 without duplicates

EC Contribution

Total 776 Mio Euros

G3 portfolio Participants

Policy Research and Innovation

25%

23% 21%

17%

12% 2%

RTD/G/03 Y Transport

RTD/G/03 Y Energy

RTD/G/03 Y Health

RTD/G/03 Y Environment

RTD/G/03 Y ICT

RTD/G/03 Y Other/Cross-cutting

Transport Energy Health Environment ICT Other / Networking Cross-Cutting

495 SMEs participating in projects of Unit G3 in FP7 (434 without duplicates)

EC contribution to SMEs 134 Mio Euros

(out of 776 Mio Euros, ~17%) Distribution by categories

25%

22% 21%

17%

12%

2% 1%

G3 portfolio Focus on SMEs

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ERC ERC - European Research Council in FP7

432 projects on materials out of 3523 (12,3%)

730 Mio Euros out of 5,8 billion Euros* (12,6%)

(total FP7 for ERC = 7,5 billion Euros)

58%

15%

12%

10% 4%

1%

Cross-Cutting

Energy

Health

ICT

Environment

Transport

250 projects

66 projects

55 projects

45 projects

15 projects

EC contribution per category

*Total operational budget spent to date

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COST

From 2007, 538 Actions in 10 Domains for a budget of 123 Mio Euros, FP7 via the European Science Foundation

Funding for networking and dissemination activities, thus the participating scientists must have secured research funding from other national or European sources

Key instrument for scientific networking, collaboration, exchange, training and dissemination activities

Actions are means to pool and share national research investments. COST estimates that each Action pools about 3.3 Mio Euros per year or about 100.000 Euros per participating researcher per year (OECD/Eurostat, Frascati Manual, 2002).

European Cooperation in Science and Technology

COST

Policy Research and Innovation

46%

16%

15%

12%

10% 1%

Cross-Cutting Environment Energy

Health ICT Transport

COST

43%

18%

15%

13%

9% 2%

Materials: broad definition

'from wood to nano'

151 Actions out of 538, 28%

31 Mio Euros out of 123*, ~25%

Value Added Materials

97 Actions out of 538, 18%

20 Mio Euros out of 123*, ~16%

*Total operational budget spent to date

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Portfolio Analysis FP7 Unit G3

Results in relation with market perspectives

Market growth for added value materials

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Summary

Material science is of crucial importance to tackle the Grand Challenges of our society. Value Added Materials belong to the Key Enabling Technologies and can deliver valuable solutions to improve quality of life of the European citizens, stimulate growth, wealth and job creation.

This portfolio analysis:

Gives an overview of the FP7 project portfolio of the Unit RTD/Materials and of projects on material science of the European Research Council (ERC) and the COST Actions.

Shows that material science plays an important role along the innovation value-chain and that research on materials is also largely cross-cutting as it encompasses multiple disciplines and various fields of application.

Contributes to the strategic discussion about future European research.